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Are You Building Your Business With a Crock-pot or a Microwave?

Duct Tape Marketing

My Hubspot channel colleague Rachel Cogar at Puma Creative has a phase that I just absolutely love – she describes Inbound Marketing as a crock-pot strategy, not a microwave strategy. If you’ve been in business for about 10 years or more, think back – what was your sales cycle before the search engine ruled the world?

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

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The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. This is a little harder to do for channel sales, but still extremely valuable. And a little harder than that for direct sales situations with large deal sizes. Good board members want to know two things: Why that happened? Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue.

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